Unreal development kit

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'It'd be difficult for anybody right now to make a game with UDK and ship it on Android, because Unreal is for making high-end, high-quality-content games,' Rein said, adding, 'most of them are pretty large, because you can make a large game with it.' Thus, Google's current 50mb limit for apps is kind of a problem, though it's one Epic and Google are looking to resolve. Companies can currently license UE3 code to develop Android games, though Epic VP Mark Rein told Gamasutra that 'UDK is a totally different story.'

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Of course, that's not to say the Unreal Engine itself isn't being used on Android - Dungeon Defenders is perhaps the most visible Unreal Engine 3-powered game on the mobile OS, though a recent deal between Epic and Gameloft ensures that won't be the case for long.

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Budding Android developers looking to utilize Epic's free Unreal Development Kit know it's still in the works for the platform.